Playboy is an American men's magazine, founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother.[1] The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with a presence in nearly every medium. .Playboy is one of the world's best known brands.^I known what I know now I would never purchsed one, remingtom brand gun and I will cancel my subscription to outdoor life.

.February 2009" style="white-space:nowrap;">[citation needed] In addition to the flagship magazine in the United States, special nation-specific versions of Playboy are published worldwide.^It is attitudes like yours that are not needed in the gun world, much less published in a magazine such as this one.

^We here in the United States are currently in danger of forgetting that we got here only by, Of, By, For, and that the people are owners of the nation and the party responsible for preserving the national security and interest.

Playboy features monthly interviews of notable public figures, such as artists, architects, economists, composers, conductors, film directors, journalists, novelists, playwrights, religious figures, politicians, athletes and race car drivers. The magazine throughout its history has expressed a libertarian outlook on political and social issues.

History

.Playboy's original title was to be Stag Party, but an unrelated outdoor magazine, Stag, contacted Hefner and informed him that they would protect their trademark if he were to launch his magazine with that name.^I will never again support Outdoor Life Magazine, The Outdoor Channel or anything that includes the Zumbo name within its production.

Hefner and co-founder and executive vice-president Eldon Sellers met to seek a new name. Sellers, whose mother had worked for the Chicago sales office of the short-lived Playboy Automobile Company, suggested "Playboy."

.The first issue, in December 1953, was undated, as Hefner was unsure there would be a second.^If every gun owner in America voted on just that one issue, just one time, all 70 million of us, there would be no 'gun control' at all.

He produced it in his Hyde Park kitchen. .The first centerfold was Marilyn Monroe, although the picture used originally was taken for a calendar rather than for Playboy.^The public's perception of gun owners and hunters is more affected by irresponsible use rather than the kind of firearm being used.

The first issue sold out in weeks. Known circulation was 53,991.[2] The cover price was 50¢. Copies of the first issue in mint to near mint condition sold for over $5,000 in 2002. The novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, was also serialized in the March, April, and May 1954 issues of Playboy magazine.

The logo, the stylized profile of a rabbit wearing a tuxedo bow tie, was originally designed by art designer Art Paul for the second issue to be used as an endnote, but was adopted as the official logo, and has appeared ever since.[3][4] A running joke in the magazine involves hiding the logo somewhere in the cover art or photograph. Hefner said he chose the rabbit for its "humorous sexual connotation," and because the image was "frisky and playful."

.An urban legend started about Hefner and the Playmate of the Month because of markings on the front covers of the magazine.^But does that mean that I would let them start writing opinion pieces in pro-2nd Amendment magazines damning about three fourths of the readership?

From 1955 to 1979 (except for a six month gap in 1976), the "P" in Playboy had stars printed in or around the letter. The legend stated that this was either a rating that Hefner gave to the Playmate according to how attractive she was, the number of times that Hefner had slept with her, or how good she was in bed. The stars, between zero and twelve, actually indicated the domestic or international advertising region for that printing.[5]

Since reaching its peak in the 1970s, Playboy has seen a decline in circulation and cultural relevance because of competition in the field it founded — first from Penthouse,Oui (which was published as a spin-off of Playboy) and Gallery in the 1970s; later from pornographic videos; and more recently from lad mags such as Maxim,FHM, and Stuff. In response, Playboy has attempted to re-assert its hold on the 18–35 male demographic through slight changes to content and focusing on issues and personalities more appropriate to its audience — such as hip-hop artists being featured in the "Playboy Interview".

.Christie Hefner, daughter of the founder Hugh Hefner, joined Playboy in 1975 and became head of the company in 1988. She announced in December 2008 that she would be stepping down from leading the company, effective in January 2009, and said that the election of Barack Obama as the next President had inspired her to give more time to charitable work, and that the decision to step down was her own.^Recently, mine changed to give me more time to enjoy an outdoor life.

“Just as this country is embracing change in the form of new leadership, .I have decided that now is the time to make changes in my own life as well,” she said.^And in that same vein of the supporting of rights, I will support my own right to withhold patronage of your magazine and any other products associated with Outdoor Life or Jim Zumbo.

The magazine celebrated its 50th anniversary with the January 2004 issue. .Celebrations were held at Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, and Moscow during the year to commemorate this event.^Its primary use is defensive - defense against terrorists, against the abscence of law enforcement as in post Katrina New Orleans and post Rodney King verdict Los Angeles.

The magazine runs several annual features and ratings. One of the most popular is its annual ranking of the top "party schools" among all U.S. universities and colleges. .For 2009, the magazine used five considerations: bikini, brains, campus, sex and sports in the development of its list.^Sod poodles are great sport, but the skills so developed and tested are of great use by Americans.

.In June 2009, the magazine reduced its publication schedule to 11 issues per year, with a combined July/August issue and on 11 August 2009, London's Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that Hugh Hefner had sold his English Manor house (next door to the famous Playboy Mansion) for $18 m ($10 m less than the reported asking price) to a Daren Metropoulos and that due to significant losses in the company's value (down from $1billion in 2000 to $84mil in 2009) the Playboy publishing empire is up for sale for $300 m.^February 18, 2007 at 10:11 AM .

[9].In December 2009, they further reduced the publication schedule to 10 issues per year, with a combined January/February issue.^February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 .

The Playboy Interview

Besides its centerfold, a major part of Playboy for much of its existence has been the Playboy Interview, an extensive (usually several thousand-word) Q&A discussion between a notable individual and an interviewer (historian Alex Haley, for example, served as a Playboy interviewer on a few occasions; one of his interviews was with Martin .Luther King Jr.; he also interviewed Malcolm X, then coauthored his autobiography).^Just ask Martin Luther King Jr. .

One of the magazine's most notable interviews was a discussion with then-presidential candidate Jimmy Carter in the November 1976 issue in which he stated "I've committed adultery in my heart many times."[10][11]David Sheff's interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono appeared in the January 1981 issue, which was on newsstands at the time of Lennon's murder; the interview was later published in book format.

Another interview type section, entitled "20Q" (a play on the game of Twenty Questions), was added in October 1978. Cheryl Tiegs was the first interviewee for the section.[12]

Circulation

The best-selling Playboy edition was the November 1972 edition, which sold 7,161,561 copies. One-quarter of all American college men were buying the magazine every month.[13] On the cover was model Pam Rawlings, photographed by Rowland Scherman.

Perhaps coincidentally, a cropped image of the issue's centerfold (which featured Lena Soderberg) became a de factostandard image for testing image processing algorithms. It is known simply as the "Lenna" (also "Lena") image in that field.[14]

Playboy is still the largest selling "men's magazine", selling about 2.6 million a month in the U.S.[15]

In 1970, Playboy became the first gentleman's magazine to be printed in braille.

.In addition, sale and distribution is banned in almost all Muslim countries (except Turkey) in Asia and Africa, such as Iran, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.^You are calling all of us terrorists you SON OF A BITCH!!!It's people like you that have caused our country to be in such a state of distress.Way to go-ASSCLOWN!!!

.An Indonesian edition launched in April 2006, but controversy started before the first issue.^At first I thought I was reading an advanced issue of the April 1rst story, but I guess ol' Dumbo Zumbo has finally lost it.

Even the publisher said the content of the Indonesian edition will be different from the original edition but the government was trying to ban it by using anti-pornography rules, since the Indonesian government cannot ban any medium. A Muslim organization, the Islamic Defenders Front (IDF), opposed to Playboy on the grounds of pornography. On April 12 about 150 IDF members clashed with police and stoned the editorial offices. Despite this, the edition quickly sold out. .On April 6, 2007 the chief judge of the case dismissed the charges because they had been incorrectly filed.^Mabe I should quit having cased guns in my truck because they're scary.

In 1986, the American convenience store chain 7-Eleven removed the magazine. The store returned Playboy to its shelves in late 2003. 7-Eleven had also been selling Penthouse and other similar magazines before the ban.

In 1995 - after a 36 year ban - Playboy was returned to shelves in Ireland. .Many women's groups in the country asked for the ban to remain in place [17].^Where will you be when a whole gun ban is placed upon our country.

.In bookstores throughout the world, it is common for Playboy, as well as other adult publications, to be put on a higher shelf than other magazines, keeping them out of the reach of children.^You were one of us, a common guy that got out in the woods and made good doing something we only dreamed we could do full time, and did it well.

They are also often wrapped in opaque plastic bags so as to not reveal the cover. .Prior to the late 1980s, Playboy was usually covered with a heavy paper wrapping, similar to paper bags commonly found in grocery stores, with the famous bunny head logo imprinted in black on both sides; however, up to and into the 1970s in the United States, mailed issues using the "plain brown wrapper" did not indicate the Playboy name or logo.^I can see not using one to hunt with and that is fine, but call us black rifle owners terrorist by calling our rifles, terrorist rifles was and is plain ignorant.

The magazine could be slid in and out of the wrapper for viewing, as opposed to the modern sealed plastic bags.

Playboy was not sold in the state of Queensland, Australia during 2004 and 2005 but returned as of 2006. Due to declining sales, the last edition of the Australian edition of Playboy was January 2000.

Litigation

.On the January 14, 2004, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that Playboy Enterprises Inc.'s (PEI) trademark terms "Playboy" and "Playmate" should be protected in the situation where a user typing "Playboy" or "Playmate" in a browser search was instead shown advertisements of companies that competed with PEI. (The decision reversed an earlier district court ruling.^I used to keep a hunting type rifle in the house for protection, but currently have an AR-15 instead.

During the 1960s and 1970s all PMOYs received pink automobiles. The hue of pink used was known as "Playmate Pink", confusingly the same shade as that of the cars awarded to Mary Kay's independent sales force.

Celebrities

Many celebrities (singers, actresses, models, etc.) have posed for Playboy over the years. .This list is only a small portion of those who have posed.^"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms, disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

International editions

This map shows the countries where Playboy is published. The dark pink indicates the countries where regional editions of the magazine are produced today and the lighter pink indicates the countries where regional editions of Playboy were once published.

(starting at the accompanying date, or during the accompanying date range)

.The growth of the Internet prompted the magazine to develop an official web presence called Playboy Online or Playboy.com, which is the official website for Playboy Enterprises, and an online companion to Playboy magazine.^I am a Moderator on PredatorMasters.com, the largest Predator Hunting website forum on the internet.

.The site has been available online since 1994.[42] As part of the online presence, Playboy developed a pay web site called the Playboy Cyber Club in 1995 which features online chats, additional pictorials, videos of Playmates and Playboy Cyber Girls that are not featured in the magazine.^I'm sure your comments will very soon be featured proudly among the anti-gun web sites and in the liberal rags like the NY Times, promoting gun bans.

Archives of past Playboy articles and interviews are also included. Playboy Cyber Club has opened up a new door for girls interested in posing. It is much easier to access, because it is online. .It attracts just about as many as the magazine, and brought a whole new line of girls.^But to be called a terroist for my choice of weapon, by someone who has zero knowledge of what he talks about, is just plain wrong, on so many levels.

.Some Playmates start in Cyber Club and work their way to the magazine.^Not saying it will due anything, but I will be forwarding your comments as well as this blog sight to some of the people who work with me at the NRA on our Magazine staff.

In September 2005, Playboy launched the online edition of the magazine Playboy Digital.

The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) has published a Braille edition of Playboy since 1970.[43] The Braille version includes all the written words in the non-Braille magazine, but no pictorial representations. .Congress cut off funding for the Braille magazine translation in 1985, but U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Hogan reversed the decision on First Amendment grounds.^It would not be the first time a gun manifacture cut off their own nose for short term profits.

Introduction and
Descripton

Welcome to Wikiversity's Department of Women's
Studies

Hello! The Wikiversity Department of Women's Studies has just
been founded. .If you are knowledgable about any of the topics
listed below, or about other Women's Studies topics, your help
would be extremely appreciated if you make a contribution.^What you did in your blog is extreme.

Learning
Resources

Where are the courses?

Waiting for you to create one. Wikiversity is a developing
project, and depends on its contributors (anyone can contribute)
for its content. Whether you call it a "course" or a "learning
project", you can organize it here. Courses/Learning projects can
be organised from a new "Topic" page, or directly in the Main
namespace (ie without any prefix). We encourage you to take the
initiative and add your materials here!

Active
participants

The histories of Wikiversity pages indicate who the active
participants are. .If you are an active participant in this
department, you can list your name here (this can help small
departments grow and the participants communicate better).^You're entitled to your opinion and are free to openly express it to be sure but so am I. In my opinion you are a small, narrow minded, ignorant person.

Wikibooks

External
resources

Women's Studies Resources at
the University of Iowa - This site, in continuous operation
since 1996, features the following annotated links pages: Activism,
Art, Communication and Media, Development - WID, Feminist Theory,
General or Mixed Indexes & Searches, History, Literature, Music
and Sports.

^The utter asininity of such a comment even goes so far as to ignore the long history of military cartridges developing a following in the sporting world.

It offers a rapid and
cost-free way for participants to ask questions and exchange
information about the academic side of Women's Studies: current
research, teaching strategies, useful texts and films, online
resources, innovative courses, building Women's Studies majors,
minors, and graduate programs, and other academic issues. .WMST-L
also welcomes announcements about relevant conferences, calls for
papers, job opportunities, publications, and the like.

^"You say that AR-15's are terrorist rifles so then i guess you are calling US Soldiers terrorists as thay are the only military in the world that uses the AR-15 platform (in the military this would be the M-16)."

Includes 16 topical subsections, such as Activism, Arts and
Humanities, Business, Health, Motherhood, Religion and
Spirituality, Science and Technology, Sports and Recreation,
Sexuality and Sexual Orientation, Women of Color, and more.

Linux Chix - LinuxChix is a community for women
who like Linux, and for women and men who want to support women in
computing.

Debian Women, founded in May 2004, seeks to
balance and diversify the Debian Project (a major Linux
distribution) by actively engaging with interested women and
encouraging them to become more involved with Debian.

Ubuntu Women is a team functioning under Ubuntu
(a major Linux distribution) to provide a platform and
encouragement for women to contribute to Ubuntu-Linux, a Debian
based free and open-source GNU/Linux software.

Adjective

Pertaining to a hedonistic philosophy and idealized women with
exaggerated sexual characteristics.

1998, Jackie Collins, Power, page 34

"More Playboy than us." Salli giggled. "I
know. Only joking. I've been on Playboy's cover three times. They
adore me." She giggled again.

2001, Jesse Ventura, Do I Stand Alone?:
Going to the Mat Against Political Pawns and Media Jackals,
page 31

And when you take a .Playboy interview, where
they pump sound bites into the media, it all sounds much harsher
than you intended.^As much as I respect the Nuge, screw him too if he buys into your crap before you can clear the air.

And ready to do something for the state too. / Do what? / Lead
it, says Shade. / He couldn't lead a frat house across the street
to the Playboy mansion.

a. 2006, Timothy 'Speed' Levitch,
"Wall Street: The Story of What Happened to Our Intimacy", in Alan
Kaufman, The Outlaw Bible of American Essays, page 48

There is more history of New York City in a
.Playboy centerfold than in the entire Encyclopedia
of New York or any other academic study of the place.^A report published by the New York Times on Monday suggests that AAA game sales taper off more quickly on Wii than Xbox 360 or PS3, this despite the logical comparison of other highly promoted games.

Derived
terms

The magazine is published once every month. It has photographs of nudewomen. It also has some articles on fashion, sports, consumer goods, and public figures. Very often, short fiction by top literary writers, such as Arthur C. Clarke is there too. The magazine has been known to express liberalopinions on most major political subjects.

Playboy's use of "tasteful" nude photos is often classified as “softcore” in contrast to the more “hardcore” pornographic magazines that started to appear in the 1970s in response to the success of Playboy's more explicit rival, Penthouse.

Many women dislike Playboy because they feel it cheapens them and makes them into things to be looked at. Other women enjoy its articles and reading about what men like.

Other meanings

The word playboy is often used to describe a rich man who spends his time enjoying himself, especially with girl friends[1]